I agree with the review pretty much - while I can see that it's a decent novel, I don't feel it's a masterpiece. Perhaps Gaiman was right with his comment, the greatest
English novel of the 20th century - but I felt that sometimes it was simplified a little too far, the characters were never quite developed as much as they could have been, though they were certainly well developed and the prose, while certainly very good, just wasn't consistently amazing.
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Much preferred Gormenghast and the darker stuff
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Very true for me as well, but I did prefer Dunsany's King of Elfland's Daughter to Lud-in-the-Mist. Lud-in-the-Mist is one of those books that feels so close to greatness it's really irritating - it's a very good novel, but I get the feeling that a few changes here and there could have made it a masterpiece.